Relates to reporting Lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death to the department of health according to the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9535
IN ASSEMBLY
January 19, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the reporting of
lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 27-H of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new section 2799 to read as follows:
3 § 2799. Reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after
4 death. If a coroner, pathologist, medical examiner, or other person
5 qualified to conduct an examination of a deceased person discovers that
6 at the time of death the individual was afflicted with lyme or other
7 tick-borne diseases, he or she shall report the case promptly to the
8 department according to the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13684-01-7
